Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists
international piano series 17 - 28 AUGUST 2018
BOOK NOW stollerhall.com Ronald Brautigam Bobby Chen Douglas Finch Philip Fowke Peter Frankl Carlo Grante Thomas Hecht Leslie Howard Eugen Indjic Robyn Koh Piers Lane BingBing Li Leon McCawley Murray McLachlan Dina Parakhina Artur Pizarro Martin Roscoe Sandro Russo Einar Steen-Nøkleberg Claudius Tanski Seta Tanyel Lulu Yang Young Artists Gala Recitals
What’s On
Leon McCawley, Sat 18 Aug
Piano Concerto Evening
RachmaninovPaganini & Grieg Sun 19 Aug, 8.30pm Romantic warhorses performed by Dina Parakhina & Philip Fowke with Stockport Symphony & Stephen Threlfall. £15 (£12) Young Artist Recital
Eylam Keshet Mon 20 Aug, 7pm
Einar SteenNøkleberg Fri 17 Aug, 7.15pm The doyen of Norwegian international pianists performs JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations. £15 (£12)
Bobby Chen & Douglas Finch Fri 17 Aug, 9.15pm Music for two pianos featuring Rachmaninov’s Fantaisie Tableaux Suite No. 1. £15 (£12)
Leon McCawley Sat 18 Aug, 8.30pm Leon performs music by Mozart, and Schubert’s expansive Sonata in G major D894.
The vibrant Israeli pianist performs Haydn, CPE Bach & R Schumann’s Humoreske. £10 (£8)
Claudius Tanski
£15 (£12)
Mon 20 Aug, 8.30pm
Composer in Residence
Professor at University Mozarteum Salzburg, Tanski performs Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Beethoven’s final Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111.
Emma-Ruth Richards Sat 18 Aug, 10pm Featuring vividly dynamic repertoire performed by the Zelkova quartet and Henry Cash, piano.
£15 (£12) Composer in Residence
£10 (£8)
Emma-Ruth Richards
Piano Concerto Evening
Mon 20 Aug, 10pm
Ronald Stevenson Memorial Recital
Warsaw Concerto & Tchaikovsky II
Sat 18 Aug, 7pm
Sun 19 Aug, 7pm
Chetham’s pianists play music by the outstanding composer-pianist who died in 2015.
Legendary pianists Seta Tanyel & Leslie Howard with Stockport Symphony under Stephen Threlfall.
£10 (£8)
£15 (£12)
Booking fees of up to £2 per ticket apply to all purchases made online or by telephone
A musical feast of vocal and instrumental music, including the world première of Perpetual Becomings, After Gormley. £10 (£8)
Peter Frankl, Murray McLachlan & Lulu Yang Tue 21 Aug, 7pm Living legend Peter Frankl returns to The Stoller Hall in a varied programme for piano duets. £15 (£12)
Gala Faculty Recital
Eugen Indjic
Wed 22 Aug, 8.30pm
Fri 24 Aug, 8.30pm
With performances by Gemma Beeson, Leslie Howard, Callum & Murray McLachlan, Seta Tanyel and William Westney.
Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana & Chopin performed by one of the world’s leading exponents of the Romantic litrature.
£15 (£12)
£15 (£12)
Murray McLachlan
Composer in Residence
Gala Faculty Recital
Thu 23 Aug, 7.30pm
Tue 21 Aug, 8.30pm
A rare opportunity to hear Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH – described as ‘one of the great works of all time’.
With performances by Graham Caskie, Nikita Fitenko, Philip Fowke, and Katerina Zaitseva. £15 (£12)
Robyn Koh: harpsichord Wed 22 Aug, 7pm
(Prof. Wilfrid Mellers)
£15 (£12)
Mark Tanner Fri 24 Aug, 10pm Hear a spectrum of colourful and witty creations including Pieces of Eight, a work for eight hands at one piano. £10 (£8) Piano Concerto Evening
Sandro Russo Fri 24 Aug, 7pm
The Stoller Hall’s first ever solo harpsichord recital featuring Chetham’s alumna Robyn Koh.
The mercurial Italian virtuoso showcases his expressive art in music by Chopin, Debussy, Scriabin and Ravel.
£15 (£12)
£15 (£12)
Rhapsody in Blue & Robert Schumann Sat 25 Aug, 7pm Two of the most popular concertos performed by Murray McLachlan & Eugen Indjic, with Chester Philharmonic Orchestra & Stephen Threlfall. £15 (£12) Piano Concerto Evening
Litolff Scherzo & Tchaikovsky I Sat 25 Aug, 8.30pm Effervescence & brilliance aplenty from BingBing Li and Artur Pizarro, with Chester Philharmonic Orchestra under Stephen Threlfall. £15 (£12) Artur Pizzaro, Sat 25 Aug
Composer in Residence
Young Artist Recital
Mark Tanner
Alim Beisembayev
Sun 26 Aug, 10pm
Tue 28 Aug, 7pm
Showcasing Mark’s music for cello, flute and piano plus the première of a dazzling new work.
Peforming Beethoven’s D Major Sonata, Op. 10 No. 3, selections from Ravel’s Miroirs and Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Paganini.
£10 (£8) Ronald Brautigam, Sun 26 Aug
Carlo Grante Sat 25 Aug, 10pm Italian virtuoso and polymath Carlo Grante has an encyclopedic repertoire and makes a welcome return to the Festival. £15 (£12)
Ronald Brautigam: Beethoven’s Last Three Sonatas Sun 26 Aug, 7pm ‘Brautigam’s Beethoven cycle offers stunning performances that are technically breathtaking, stylistically astute, emotionally intense & musically alive in every moment.’ Gramophone £15 (£12)
Piers Lane Sun 26 Aug, 8.30pm
Thomas Hecht Mon 27 Aug, 5pm The renowned American pianist is Head of Piano at YST Conservatory in Singapore. Featuring works by Brahms & Barber. £15 (£12)
Martin Roscoe Mon 27 Aug, 7pm The much-loved British pianist performs Schubert’s final sonata & works by Dohnányi.
£10 (£8)
Gala Faculty Recital Tue 28 Aug, 8.30pm A terrific mixed programme to close the series with James Brawn, Marie-Louise Taylor, Vladimir Tropp, Philip Martin and Les Chisnall. £15 (£12)
More music for less Get a 20% discount when you book four or more concerts in the Series.
£15 (£12)
Gala Faculty Recital
Les Chisnall, Tue 28 Aug
Mon 27 Aug, 8.30pm With performances by Marcella Crudeli, Alicja Fiderkiewicz, Benjamin Frith and Peter Lawson. £15 (£12)
The internationally celebrated pianist makes his solo recital debut at The Stoller Hall with a varied programme stretching from Scarlatti to Rachmaninov. £15 (£12) Booking fees of up to £2 per ticket apply to all purchases made online or by telephone
Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists
international piano series We are thrilled to present 29 incredible concerts over 12 days at The Stoller Hall as part of the 18th Chetham’s Piano Summer School. In addition to performances by internationally celebrated soloists, we warmly welcome orchestras from the North-West of England under the baton of Stephen Threlfall. Murray McLachlan Summer School & Festival Director www.pianosummerschool.com
Concerto Evenings On Sun 19 and Sat 25 August, Stephen Threlfall directs Stockport Symphony Orchestra and Chester Philharmonic Orchestra alongside superb soloists in eight piano concertos performed over four concerts.
Young Artists Eylam Keshet and Alim Beisembayev (winner of the 2017 Manchester Concerto Competition) give recitals as young artists in the 2018 Series.
Gala Faculty Recitals New for 2018: Four stunning gala recitals from members of the outstanding international faculty.
Composers in Residence Exciting, dynamic, innovative & accessible music from Emma-Ruth Richards & Mark Tanner.
Also coming soon
Classical Voice Training Wednesday 1 – Tuesday 7 August Singing and Teaching Singing: A Holistic Course in Classical Voice Professor Janice Chaplin directs a multidisciplinary course for singers and singing teachers. With 30 years of experience in the industry, Janice has sung professionally with all of the major opera companies and is joined by a spectacular roster of specialist teachers for this tailored course. Each day will involve warm ups, presentations, demonstrations, smallgroup workshops and masterclasses, and there will be opportunities to schedule one-to-one sessions with members of the team. A short-course, residential and nonresidential options are available. www.classicalvoicetraining.com
Scoring Fear: An Evening of Classical Music and Gothic Horror Film Scores Wednesday 1 August, 7.30pm BBC Philharmonic Dr Matt Foley presenter Settle in and hold on tight as we explore music that makes us scared. Scoring Fear marks the first collaboration between the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and the BBC Philharmonic. The concert will feature music by an eclectic mix of composers whose work invokes suspense, awe, terror, and even horror with music by Bernard Herrmann, Dmitri Shostakovich and Béla Bartók. 7.30pm Complimentary canapés and refreshments 8pm Performance £20 This performance will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Sound of Cinema
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